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• When the producer compresses a message, write the relative offset value in the raw message's offset field. Leave the wrapped message's offset blank.
• When broker receives a compressed message, it only needs to
  
  1. Decompress the message to verify the CRC and relative offset.
     NOTE: If the relative offset is not contiguous (e.g., if this is a mirrored compacted topic), the broker will reassign the relative offsets. There are two ways to handle this - (i) reject the ProducerRequest or (ii) just assign the relative offsets. We chose to reassign offsets rather than reject the request because there is a useful use case where mirror maker can do a direct copy from source cluster to destination cluster without even decompressing the message. In this case, the compressed message can have noncontinuous relative offsets (for compacted topics).
  2. Set outer message's base offset. The outer message's base offset will be the offset of the last inner message.  (Since the broker only needs to update the message-set header, there is no need to re-compress message sets.)
• When the log cleaner compacts log segments, it if multiple message sets are integrated into one message set, the broker needs to update the inner message's relative offset values. (This will leave "holes" inside the new wrapped message).
• When the consumer receives a message, it converts the relative offset back to actual offset.

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